Comments on: How Apple Put Everyone In an App State of Mind http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By:   Chris Messina: The death of the URL by HOTCONCEPT.INFO http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167293 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:40:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167293 [...] rise of the “app store mentality” is a direct attack on the web, and on the very nature of free discovery and choice built upon [...]

]]> By: App Store Anniversary: One Year Later | Mac Bargains http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167292 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:03:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167292 [...] hold up. The App Store has been such a success that all the other major smartphone makers are launching their own app stores, for the BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm Pre, and Google Android [...]

]]> By: The Meteoric Rise of the App Store http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167291 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:22:01 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167291 [...] Success breeds competition, though, and a number of Apple’s rivals are bringing their own wireless app stores to market: [...]

]]> By: App Store Anniversary: One Year Later http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167290 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:36:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167290 [...] hold up. The App Store has been such a success that all the other major smartphone makers are launching their own app stores, for the BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm Pre, and Google Android [...]

]]> By: Verizon to Mobile Developers: Can You Hear Me Now? http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167289 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:49:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167289 [...] assume he means Apple’s App Store for the iPhone, which has reinvented the idea of mobile applications by making the process of consuming such apps easier on consumers, and the approach to offering them [...]

]]> By: App Store Anniversary: One Year Later http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167288 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:06:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167288 [...] hold up. The App Store has been such a success that all the other major smartphone makers are launching their own app store for the Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Palm Pre, and Google Android [...]

]]> By: Upcoming Java App Store Could Dwarf Others: Is Oracle Behind It? | google android os blog http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167287 Sat, 23 May 2009 15:26:58 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167287 [...] stores have become quite a phenomenon, in and out of the open source arena. Apple’s app store made it the largest digital download retailer of all, and Microsoft has an app store in the works to challenge Apple’s. The Android Market is [...]

]]> By: Vodafone joins app store bandwagon « Raja Jasti’s Blog - Renaissance Thinking http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167286 Tue, 12 May 2009 19:20:54 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167286 [...] also the question of the user experience and app discovery. The App Store nailed the user experience — and that’s why it is so successful. Technically savvy consumers want to buy the iPhone; they [...]

]]> By: Vodafone Wants to Take a Bite Out of Apple’s App Store http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167285 Tue, 12 May 2009 15:06:45 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167285 [...] also the question of the user experience and app discovery. The App Store nailed the user experience — and that’s why it is so successful. Technically savvy consumers want to buy the [...]

]]> By: Tim Layton http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167284 Sat, 09 May 2009 19:42:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167284 While the idea and concept of an application store is old news these days, the bottom line is that users now expect that experience. Microsoft’s response is the windows mobile marketplace. All of the details are not clear at this time because all we have to go on is the announcement, but my guess is that Microsoft understands how important the mobile application store and experience is to the user community and I think they are highly motivated to deliver a great portal and experience for us mobile users. Being a developer myself. I can’t wait to get started with the new marketplace.

]]> By: IBM Shows Telco CEOs Struggling to Adapt http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167283 Tue, 05 May 2009 14:57:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167283 [...] far has been Apple’s success with the iPhone and how the device maker has positioned itself in the middle of the relationship a customer has with a carrier. The remaining 15 percent are looking to try multiple options in changing their [...]

]]> By: Stat Shot: iPhone Users Are App-Hungry [GigaOM] | BYOHosting.com Blogs http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167282 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:24:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167282 [...] point is that with the App Store and smooth user interface on the iPhone, Apple has made it both easy and fun to find and use more applications. So who cares what you do with it? Apple has created a package of hardware and software that works [...]

]]> By: Stat Shot: iPhone Users Are App-Hungry http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167281 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:37:13 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167281 [...] point is that with the App Store and smooth user interface on the iPhone, Apple has made it both easy and fun to find and use more applications. So who cares what you do with it? Apple has created a package of hardware and software that works [...]

]]> By: J. O'Donnell http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167280 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:10:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167280 I would be the first to congratulate Apple on delivering a mobile application store which combines a clean interface with easy to use download and update capabilities however; I would also ask if Apple is becoming a victim of their own success?

Apple’s clean user interface design works well with a few hundred or few thousand applications but now with the total number of applications currently over 30,000 that interface is starting to look like it’s going to fall apart under the load. Imagine you’re a developer who has built the next great game. Pretty soon your game will be highlighted on one of 50+ pages of information. Will every iPhone user page through all this data or will they take the easy option and just look at the top twenty or so games. What happens if your game is at position number 25? Sorry but the users will have to dig for it and in all likelihood many won’t make the effort.

There are two problems facing the Apple app store. The first is simply the number of applications and the second is simply the noise created by so many applications being uploaded which potentially are really just a quick technical demo that the new to apple programmer put together in a day and thought he would upload to see who would buy it. While in most cases Apple does not validate the quality of an application, this also means that the app store is absolutely flooded with shovel ware. Currently the app store does not make it easy to find the gold in the system beyond the top 20 or so lists. With so much bad software, consumers are already reporting that in many cases downloaded applications are never used again after 24 hours.

Apple has certainly raised the bar for the mobile industry by making it easy to download and update applications however their next challenge is to work out how to make it easy for consumers to find the gold in a system that already seems overloaded with over priced and under featured applications. I will watch with interest how other vendors will respond. Additionally I can imagine that magazine publishers are already eyeing the number of mobile applications that are appearing and realizing that they can launch review style magazines to help get consumers to the best mobile applications.

Finally even Samsung has launched their own mobile app store at http://applications.samsungmobile.com/en/gbp/index.html

]]> By: Everyone Dreams of a Digital Download Service — Even Best Buy http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167279 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:57:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167279 [...] attempts, if not all of them, failed. When it comes to mobile apps and digital movie downloads, history is repeating itself. But unlike music, there are no clear winners yet, though Netflix, Amazon and Apple are all vying [...]

]]> By: MechOrga 3D action on the iPhone – steer clear? | 3D Gaming http://gigaom.com/2009/04/13/how-apple-put-everyone-in-an-app-state-of-mind/#comment-167278 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:12:05 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=45387#comment-167278 [...] How Apple Put Everyone In an App State of Mind (gigaom.com) [...]

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